The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Gotta Clean That Up

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

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Quervo.com. Please drink responsibly. Quirval. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast. One of the things that I always find interesting in basketball is how sustainable are you? The Pacers are one in ten. The Mavericks were in the finals a couple of years ago. The whole thing has fallen apart.

You remember that really fun year Sacramento had where it's like, are they on the rise? Now their coach is Doug Christie, who I don't believe is necessarily qualified for that job. He's another one of these former players who doesn't have a unique necessarily insight to how to coach. He's just a former player who has some allegiances to Sacramento that people remember. And so the Sacramento thing has collapsed, and the press conference we played of Doug Christie yesterday was weird. But before I replay it and then tell you what happens to update this story, I mean, what's fair and unfair? to say about Doug Christie's both relationship with Sacramento and his relationship with his wife that was a subject of much topic around Doug Christie that makes a whole lot of people in our audience of a certain age remember that Doug Christie was wildly and hugely supportive of his wife in a way that made it known to all in a way that was super public that his wife was in charge of their relationship and that she was the one and his love was something that buoyed her.

They were very public about their relationship before that was a popular thing. And it's almost one of the first things I think of when I think of Doug Christie. What's fair to examine there? Well, I mean, I would just, to the second question, just say that, like, if you think about the show basketball wives, which opened up this whole world

of the wives and girlfriends, the wags as they call them over across the pond, being celebrities of their own right. And Jackie Christie was really like the first one to be of that mold, even before the show went on. in terms of being known for being Doug Christie's wife, which is funny because Doug Christie wasn't that famous a player when he played. But to the first question, what he means to the city of Sacramento,

you've got to think about the only sustainable success they've ever had in that city over 40 years of having NBA basketball is Doug Christie, Chris Weber, Pages Teyalkovich, Heeter Turkleu, Rick Adelman, those Valdi Dvats, those teams, right? And so... Could have and should have beaten Shacks Lakers. It became closer than anybody else, I guess, other than the Pistons who actually did it, right? So the idea here is that, and as a guy who never left, right, stayed with the organization first as a broadcaster and then as an assistant coach and now as a head coach, right?

So when he speaks, he knows how to use the jingoistic terms to get the sacramental people very bought in to him as a person and as a leader. So yesterday we played this sound, which is him after they lost pretty handily. Good evening, good evening. Some of you guys, I think everybody in here knows me. If you don't, my name is Douglas Dale Christie. I'm head coach of the Sacramento Kings. Change is hard, y'all. We're about to work at it like crazy.

We totally get that. And it'll be bumpy. It will. Because change is like that. But buckle up. For the real ones, buckle up. And for all the rest of you, you know who you are. You know how I feel about that. When I see the hate, the haters, the fakers, all you guys, you keep that energy. That's good. You keep that. And you know who you are. Because why are you doing that? We're going to be working. And why are you doing that? We're going to be growing. And while you do that, eventually, we're going to be coming. 10 seconds here. The King Show. Sack proud. No that. Three, two.

All right, I mean, go ahead, second. Set up a second. So that was after they lost to the Nuggets, 122 to 108. So last night, they played against the Hawks. Worst team, right? Also a home game. Surely better results. Roll it sound.

shameful compete level that's it 133 to 108 they lost to the hawks he had that big ass speech I didn't expect that they lost to the hawks worse than they lost to the nuggets that was his sound but he tried to motivate look he threatened the haters you heard it he went in but he doesn't have the fakers don't forget about that energy he doesn't have the soldiers behind him he's got got what's left of Russell Westbrook trying to get a triple double.

Like, you want to talk about, like, the clippers, and they're just getting a bunch of names. That's literally what the Kings are. We like Russ. De Rosen and Russell Westbrook isn't going to fix it at the end. Schrooter. Like, what is all of that? What are they doing in Sacramento? That was toward the – that was the most promising team in the Western Conference a couple of years ago.

Lighten that beam. Them in Memphis were like, wow, this is the future, and it's like, you know about that beam? What happened? what Doug Christie is now in charge of something he will not be able to pull out of. There will be no pulling out of that. He will drown under what is happening in Sacramento and they will go back to being what they've always been

if not for Rick Adelman. This is why we always say that ownership is so important in sports is because you can hire qualified people but if you don't support them, especially in times of crisis, then it all falls apart. They had, as you said, the beginnings of something that looked like it was starting to work with Monty McNair as the GM and West Wilcox in that front office and Mike Brown as the head coach and as Mike Brown is telling everybody hey this isn't working because guys aren't listening guys are not executing their answer was it's Mike Brown's fault they get rid of Mike Brown and then obviously they get rid of their front office and so this cycle begins anew and the new front office comes in with Scott Perry and they made some decisions that quite frankly feel very head scratching. It feels like this

does not move. It's such a stupid roster you look at it. It's a stupid roster. It is a stupid roster. You know what's crazy? Zaz is like, they're one of the teams I mentioned yesterday I happen to know that are monitoring the John Moran situation. He happens to know? Great Scott. He happens to know. He happens to know. Gather everyone. Get the children. He happens to know.

So why? You can't do that a second day after he's already done the happen to know. The happen to know has to be a surprise. Respect the happen to know. It can't be him repeating and recycling yesterday's happened to know. If the play works. But the point is, it's like you send them John Morant and yes, they'll be better because John Moran's good. But it feels like it's just going to be more of the same because they're not going to provide the structure and the like accountability that I think John Morant really needs. It feels like sending John Moran to a bad situation. is probably not the spot for him.

The idea that you guys are talking two years after Sacramento and Memphis were playing for the top of this conference, they were telling us, look, look, you can make them three and four and five seats, but I was told that was OKC before I was told OKC was going to be OKC, okay, I was told that that was going to be the future, Sacramento and Memphis and their young players and they're playing a different kind of basketball to look up and see Memphis getting every game, whether job plays or not, losing by 35 points every single. night, every single night where they've given up on the entirety of whatever it is that that was supposed to be. Dentech's ready. I don't want to do football yet. I'm not happy with your

governance of today's game. You've been actively distracting a mean. I've heard, I've heard. Gotta go. Gotta go. Gotta go. I don't want to do the Dentech bucket yet. Yeah, no, let's keep talking Sacramento Kings. I was working. Get the, get the Reaper out of here. I'll do football for you. Reaper out. I don't want to, I'm not ready to do this yet. No, we give them that, we give them that control over the offense. We'll do the Dentech bucket in a sec. Check with me. The thing that I did want to get to, though, because I'm hearing Lewis during the breaks as I go out into a kitchen area where I thought the pastelitos, I thought we scrimped a little bit in the eating area on the pastilitos today. Look, they were excellent. We love our pastolito poppy. There's a, you know, there could be more.

I could hear Lewis still grumbling. I really need that money Sunday. So I'm watching on the television, and it says Chiefs must win game against the Broncos. And I want people to understand what the bet was that Nick Wright made the other day, because it's not me against him. It is, the shipping container has five grand riding on the Chiefs minus three and a half at Denver, correct? So this is a game for the top of the division. And I don't think it's a must win game for the Chiefs, but you guys don't. don't seem to be objecting to the idea of it as a must-win game for the Chiefs. It's absolutely a must-win game in more ways than one.

Yo, how locked in are you that? I'm, buddy, I might be calling place. Might have to send it over to Andy Reed. So Nick Wright and I are making a $5,000 bet on behalf of both Nick's Chiefs and the shipping container. The shipping container minus Mike minus a mean. This is Tony. According to Nick Wright, this is five grand for Tony, Chris, Roy, Lewis, and who's the fifth person. Jeremy? You sure

he wanted Jeremy? He's not here to defend himself. And that's five grand split amongst us. Are you guys going, as part of the... Although we can do each of you. As part of the consortium that Nick is in where he bets big money on big things, he's willing to spill $5,000 on behalf

of the shipping container. Will you guys be watching that game with the audience on Sunday? The must win game for the Chiefs with you guys on the chief side, five grand on the result. You guys will be watching that and doing something with it? Dan, will we be doing something? You will be able to watch a sweat every single second of Kansas City

versus Denver, a massive game in the AFC West, not only for these two teams, but for the boys in the shipping container and Lewis in the back. I will be spearheading it, okay? You know, I'm Mr. Live 305. We will be spearheading a live watch party watching Chiefs Broncos 425 big game. Big game.

I decide it's a big game and not a big game. I'm telling you that. You don't get to decide that. I decide that one. What is it? Zaz decides. I'm telling us a big game. Chiefs, Broncos,

$5,000. That's a big game. Let's go. Oh, wow, all right. Let's go. Big game. How many other big games are on the schedule? Let's do the Dentech bucket.

Go get the shamed Reaper and allow him into the room. There's actually one other big game, by the way. Seahawks versus Rams. I'll decide that. Massive game. Is that a big game, too? Hold on a second. I forget the Raiders.

Seahawks, Rams. NFC West. That's a big game. We got another big game. Three big games this week? Wait, I don't know. Coach, what do you think about Buck's bills, coach? I'm not focus on Dallas Monday night.

Coach doesn't decide big games or not big games. And a quarterback change. Zaz decides that. Bucks, bills. Bill's coming off of a bad loss to a stinky team. Bucks coming off of a loss to a good team. That's a big game. Oh, okay.

Three straight big games. Big weekend. I think we got four big games. No. Detroit and Philly. Big game on Sunday night. Wait a minute. Is there a fourth big game?

That is a fourth game. Sunday night football. Lions. That is a big one. Eagle. I just thought. Lions. Eagles.

That's a big game. All right. So there's just all big games. No, that's it. Just those four. That's it. Not all of them. Most of them are not.

First game ever in Spain? Most of it. Okay. Washington. Oh. Miami. Both teams are three and seven. Terrible record. Not a big game. Not a big game. They're not an old big game.

We've got Chargers Jags. Oh, that's a good game. Yeah? Is that a good game or a big game? You don't know a difference? Impactful. Two playoff teams as it right now. Chargers, Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence, sucks. Not a big game

Not a big game Sam of Lawrence doesn't play in big games There's only four big games Amin, go ahead and reach into the bucket Go ahead and turn the games I look to rummage I got the Broncos So you are a four and a half

Now the line is gone up to four and a half You should keep it I'm putting it back Ooh wow He's an ally man You gotta fade the shipping container It's a big game For the record, by the way, the game on Sunday, according to our lines, it's three and a half,

because the line here is four and a half. It's gone up a point in favor of the chief, so Nick got that line at three and a half earlier in the week. Just, I don't want any confusion if there's a four-point controversy. I'm imagining. Just put back a four-and-a-half point favorite at home that's first place in the division. Steelers The Steelers are 5.5.5 point favorite at home against Cincinnati. But Flacco, though.

The bucket is presented by Dentech's ultimate fantasy football punishment. Learn more and sign up your league at Dentec.com. Tomlin is afraid of Flocko. I'm worried. He is afraid of flaco. That's true. It's the only guy who makes him blink. Mike, I don't need the soundtrack of you chewing.

Can coach pick the radio? Is that a, is that a conco? Don't let him look in the bucket. I see him cheating. He should just get the Raiders. Let's go. And we just give them the Raiders? What do you mean you're going to defer?

Second half, Dan. The Raiders are at home against the Cowboys. You get the Raiders. We defer. We defer. We defer. Come back. Come back after half a use.

I got the Giants. I'm going to throw that back expeditiously. The Giants. Good job. James Winston. Ooh, the Jamesis. He's seven and a half point underdog at home against the Packers.

I know. that one's going to go. Weird team, Packers. Packers, kind of weird, yeah. Unserious. That's what Dominic Foxworth says. Wow. I got a big game. Bucks. Wow. You've got Tampa Bay, so Tampa Bay is going to end up being on the road. I'm getting points, Dan. I'm getting five and a half. Well, no, you're giving, yeah, you're getting five and a half points. No, you're not getting anything. You're a five and a half, Dan, Dan. Remember when we used to wear gloves for this segment? This is annoying. It's annoying to speak this way, and I imagine it's a annoying for the audience at this point as well, but Dentech is not annoying. It'll get rid of your

headache if you're a grinder. Roy, way to clean that up. What do you have on your helmet, Roy? Is that the Seahawks? Yes, sir, the Seattle Seahawks. So Seattle, that's in one of the big games. They're at the Rams. They're a three and a half point dog at the ram. I'm putting in that back. Whoa! You guys are putting

good teams? The United's one of the best teams in the league, Roy. Are you watching football? I'm watching hockey. I can tell. Clearly. He's got the charts. I got the Giants. Oh, the Giants, I'm sorry. So you're a seven and a half point dog.

Roy, start watching football, buddy. I'll watch it on Sunday. All right, here we go. I'm going now. I'm going to the bottom. I like to go to the bottom. Get one out of the bottom. Hey, why aren't you wearing your Dentech mouthpiece? I am not wearing that at the moment.

I have the Falcons. The Falcons are at home. Three and a half point favorite over Carolina. Not bad. Favorered over a team they lost by 32. Not bad. I'll keep it. They're at home.

Wow. All right, I deferred. I'm going to go ahead and pick now. The second half just kicked off then. He's super annoying today, man. He's most annoying most days. Davis Mills. At Tennessee, we're going to keep that.

You're going to keep that as a six and a half point favorite at Tennessee, despite your beloved Cam Ward. The Reaper is coming in here now to allow Zaslo. Zaslo, you haven't done a whole lot of punishments. One of them was you stayed in the bed. How many times have you lost this season? Yeah, and I also did. I dressed up in a NASCAR driver

and I have a punishment coming up next week. My deal is in the mail. So don't you worry about that. I think you're dressing up as the Pope. Yeah. It's appropriate. San Francisco. Appropriate.

The 49ers are on the road at Arizona. They're a three and a half point favorite. I'm going to keep that. All right. You're going to keep that. That was funny. As soon as the Cardinals say, hey, no more Kyler Murray. We're going to go with Jacoby Jacoby Brissette gives you that

game. I've got the Dentech Golden Helmand of Life I'm assuming, right? Like this is yes, look at this. This is the most precious thing in here. No one's happy for me, of course. I require the celebratory music. Thank you, Dentec.

Dentec, I'm very pleased. No one's happy for me. Obviously, they want to see me in these costumes. Stop talking. I don't like these costumes. Thanks to you. Talking over the imagery. I was going to lay out as soon as the Stu Gathe came in here. But once again, you're being too handsy with the show and you're getting in my way.

I mean, people are talking. You know, do not know what laying out means. At the end of the sound, you were going to lay out. At the end of the sound, right before the bah. Got to run out of bounds. Right before the bough. All right, let's just go ahead. I was going to stop right before the bha.

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This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. I'm reading headlines this morning, and I did not see this game, okay? So you will forgive me for not knowing that Hannah Hidalgo is a great player for Notre Dame in women's college basketball. She scored 44 points last night. But when I saw 16 steals, when I saw 16 steals, when I saw 6. 16 steals. I'm like, does Akron have a point guard problem? Because 16 steals, I don't understand under what circumstance I could be watching any game that someone is so athletic that they've got

16 steals in a game. What would you guys think is the record in an NBA game for steals in a game? Because when I saw 16 steals, I'm like, that can't just be about Hannah Hidalgo is great. She'll score against everyone. She'll score 44 against a lot of people. But if I ask you for the steals record, when I see 16 steals, I assume the steals record is like half that. Something closer to 8

than to 16. The NBA record for steals in a game is 11. It's two guys. Larry Keenan and Kendall Gill. Keenan did his in 76, Gill in 99. Shout out to Kendall Gill, the boxer. Seven players have done 10 steals. 16 steals, though. That must be very fun to play basketball that way.

To be a player who can steal the ball 16 times feels to me like what would be a dream scenario for how can I be more athletic than everyone it is that I'm playing against, so athletic that I can dominate the game by doubling up what would be a normal

steal total for an amazing game. Or just playing against some sloppy sloppy passes, bad turnovers, bad ball handling. Also, I mean, what's the cookie rate on those 16 steals? Because that's an important thing to note, Is it 16 steals where I'm getting in the passing lane I'm getting one? Or is it cookies where I'm taking what you're dribbling?

And those are mine. Thank you, excuse me. The cookie percentage is an important element. We need that out. would imagine, right, than the point totals. Can you guys tell me whether or not you've been following at all the journey of Gilbert Arenas, because it's been really interesting to watch all the things that Aranus is doing, pouring a great deal of money into the making of content. He's gotten into the content business in a way that is expensive and has been successful.

There are not a lot of athletes who have had the success in this space that Gilbert Arinas has. Gilbert Arenas during his playing days and afterward is an uncommon personality anywhere in athletics where he's actively willing to be a troll. This goes back to his playing days. He got suspended one of the longest suspensions ever that I thought before watching the Netflix documentary. I really did think that Gilbert Arinas didn't get into historic suspension trouble for bringing a gun into a locker room and having a shot. showdown with Javaris Crittenden. I thought that the suspension initially would be over that. And then I thought, no, the reason that he got that long a suspension is because while

he was still playing while they were trying to figure out what to do with that, he came out and did a gun celebration with finger guns and then he got yanked off the court. But it turns out after watching the Netflix documentary that the reason he got suspended for that, he says, is because he was just on NBA planes going back and forth all over the place with a bunch of guns. Dan, a couple of things. Gilbert Arenas, like Shaquille O'Neal, sometimes embellish his stories,

right? But it is true. His initial suspension for having the guns in the locker room, all that was like two games, three games, or something like that. He gets reactivated. That first game back when he's reactivated, he comes out with the finger guns, and David Stern blew a gasket. And that's when he threw the book at him, which is what I actually

ask Adam Silver to do all the time. Throw the book Adam. He's being introduced before a game in the middle of this. controversy and as he does so he does finger guns as if he thinks all of this is funny that he's getting suspended for a couple of games so this is the background this is the kind of guy is I mean even we talk about the the showdown if you will crittenden walks in the locker room and Gilbert has three guns on the chair and says pick one and Chris says I don't have to do that I got my own

cocks it starts singing oh let's do it and it said everybody ran out of locker room except for Gilbert Arenas then I heard this from not Gilbert Arenas he sat back and he laughed. So this is the level of troll ladies and gentlemen. He's willing to die for the joke, right? Or at least he was when he was a player. When Gilbert retired, I knew, I said, this guy would be great

on TV. The problem is he's Gilbert Arenas. He plays by nobody's rules. We had him on the jump one time. Our producer sat with him for 40 minutes in pre-show meeting. All they were doing were going over words you can't say. What about, can I say this word? No, you can't say that on TV? They finally landed

on doucheback. Can I say doucheback? Fine, Gilbert. you could say douchebag. And then he proceeded on the jump to work the word douchebag into every single answer of every question thrown at him. This is the Gilbert Arenas who at another time

could never exist on TV. But because of the great equalizer of the internet, he has become a massive star for all the reasons of rule breaking, of being a troll, of all these things

have allowed him be a massive start. Now here's the deal, Dan. We got the gambling scandal. And this is him talking about the day he looked maybe I should stop trolling. Me trolling my own case and I'm ready to snitch, right? And then I'm looking at the case like,

all right, Chauncey, Rozier. The fuck this guy doing me. What happened is we're getting ready to go on the show. So I'm like, I'm not gonna mess this moment up. Not gonna mess this moment up, right? So... With the lunchback, say again? Informant lunch.

I didn't know, because, you know, I'm reading on real time and then, you know, going on the show, I didn't know how serious that was. And then once I realized, realize how serious it was, it kind of scared me. The them, right, it started saying, like, the crime families. Like, I've heard these names are phoned.

Right, you know, like, I'm, you know, I'm watching, because I watch datelines and I watch, you know, all this mob shit. So I be watching, like, you know, okay, got an argument at a restaurant. Next day, restaurant blew up. Oh, okay. Car blew up. Ooh, like, okay, so they're serious about their business on just arguments. This is real.

this is four families and my name is in it for no damn reason do they think this is real do they think i'm a part of it listen i didn't get in my car for about a week and a half really hell no i mean let's let's talk about what's real and what no no i believe i don't this one's interesting right i did not believe that there was a trolling line that gilbert arinas would not cross because i too marveled at in a locker room where Gilbert knew what his power was as the star and the star money maker, he pushed a teammate to the brink on the game of chicken of, you're not going to shoot me in here,

here are the guns, teammates are running out, but he's that committed to the joke. Layout. He does not fear the FBI. He does not fear basketball investigations. He does fear the mafia, obviously. That's exactly it, Dad. And, like, the idea is that because he had his own, like, FBI thing earlier in the summer,

people were saying, oh, maybe Gilbert was on a toll. So as soon as he saw the story, he comes in with the bag with the informant lunch on it. But even as he's telling the story, I'm like, I don't believe you, Gilbert. I think he's still going to troll. He's still going to do these jokes. And he's still going to have fun with it. In the rest of the clip, he says he had to make calls to the underworld to make sure, am I kosher, am I good, or am I in danger here?

And they let him know he's good. and now he can start his car. I just don't, yeah, I just don't believe the part where he didn't, he didn't go in his car for a couple of minutes. A week and a half a week. There's no way. There's no way he didn't go in his car for a couple of weeks. You know about those car bombs? Well, yeah, I do.

Okay, so? So, there's no way he didn't go in his car. Well, I stutter. I was trying to tell you. I do believe he was scared, though, and I don't believe he scares easily. There's a moment, right? There's a brief moment where you're like, oh, shit. Like, I'm making a joke.

and I'm thinking I'm making the joke at the expense of Terry Rozier, at the expense of Chansy Billups, the expense of Adam Silver. And you realize when you look at the names on that list, you're like, oh, there's some people who don't maybe They don't make jokes. They don't make jokes, yeah. Like, I need to clarify real quick.

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Don Lebertard. For weeks, months even, during the regular season, I wondered allowed what Kevin Stenland did. And then about three weeks ago, it hit me. Stugats. He gives him one of these, and he gives them one of those. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. What were your thoughts, I mean, on the move that Steve Kerr made, where he's saying he's ready to make

major changes and the major change is right after Dremont says hidden agendas, it's Kaminga you're going to the bench. We are in, we're aware, right, that Dremont still leads that team, right? Like that the furnace that Dremond is with the connection specifically

that he has to Steph, right? Like this is an unusual bond that they have. In the fire, the only ones who survived it was them. Durant got blown out, get out of here, Clay. We're the furnace. It's going to be, Draymond does all the little things. Steph does all the big things.

Good cop, bad cop in the locker room, I would imagine. I imagine that everybody loves Steph and Draymond's the one policing it. They go out and they beat Wembe last night after Jimmy Butler's there with Draymond, coming is the problem. The problem here is comminga, and now comminga goes to the bench. Well, Anthony Slater also posited yesterday that Brandon Pajemski, Brandon Pajemski, the third-year guard, had made comments in the summer that they deemed to be a little disrespect That's stupid. I saw those comments.

So Brandon Pishimsky was asked, like, how good do you want to be? You know, how are you going to take the mantle or something? He's like, I want to be better than Curry. And apparently the veterans got mad. Why? That's stupid. Cares. I mean, it's... He's saying he wants to be one of the greatest players.

That's not a good thing to say? A level of kind of... It's weird. It's a sport that demands delusion, but also, like, realistic delusion. Like, I've told the story before about Aaron Aflalo, where he's... told us in our pre-draft interview that we said, who's a guy in the league whose career you think you can mimic?

And he said, Kobe Bryant. Well, no, yes, obviously the best players we want to emulate them, whatever. But realistically, you look around the league, who's like someone like, I can have his career? And he's like, Kobe Bryant. And we were like, yeah, dude, you're not going to be Kobe Bryant. So then we explained him, like,

we think you can be like a bigger, more athletic. Roger Bell can do a little bit more off the dribble, can defend a little bit more versatility because you are tall or whatever. And it was like we told them, hey, can you clean our toilets, barehanded, please? It was so far beneath him to say, hey, you can be Roger Bell, which Roger Bell, all the defensive team, played on some teams that went to the finals and deep runs. When you talk about these delusions, though, do you guys not understand in the Warriors' locker room

how Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, and Steph Curry would look at anyone else in the locker room and be like, you have no idea how hard what we just did was for the last 10 years. You have no concept. Go to what mean, diddy? Don't do that one. Like, do you think Jimmy's a part of any of those conversations with... Jimmy feels he belongs in that conversation.

First of all, Draymond and Jimmy are lockstep, right? It's the two assholes who like to hold people accountable in the most asshole way possible. Which, again, in Draymond's case, I think for both of them, they're vets, they've been in the league long enough. and I think the things that they demand are good basketball. They're not demanding, hey, just keep passing me the ball and get out of the way. They want you to play better.

For Draymond in particular, like I said yesterday when we're talking about him and Steph and Clay when he was there and Andre Guadala when he was there, like they're really understanding about what makes this thing go. Not just like, hey, give the ball to step or whatever, but like literally the attitude and the approach of the championship mentality. It's not for everybody, right? the way they do things there. And so when you see someone who kind of breaks away from that, they're like, no, no, no, no, no, man. We got put four banners up there doing it this way, to hell with your way.

Okay, but here's where the Warriors are stupid. What did they expect with Jonathan Kaminga this year? They went the whole summer. We don't want you. You don't want us. And then eventually he signs the tender. And yeah, he still needs to go out now this year. and get his because he wants to sign a long-term deal.

And you know what? Coming from Jimmy Butler, that's pretty effing rich. Where last year he tanked the heat because, you know, he wanted his money. Even though Jimmy's probably made $200 million in his career, Jonathan Camingo's made squat. And like, you're upset that Jonathan Camingo's trying to go out there and get his? Like, it's kind of, it's kind of stupid that the words didn't acknowledge this. That's a good point.

Kind of trailed off. I think the context is important, right? In the sense that Jimmy Butler last year, I mean, we all knew it. You looked at this Miami Heat team, this is not a championship team. Meanwhile, in Golden State,

they feel like they are a championship team. And so when that agenda supersedes the ultimate team success, it becomes threatening. When it's like, we're not doing anything anyway, then it's a little bit more acceptable. What the Warriors expect. What they expect out of it this year.

And also, like, the players aren't the ones they have nothing to do with that. Like, this is a player, driven conversation. Can we examine, though, when Zaz sort of says, what did they expect? Let's make it A.J. Brown now in the Eagles, okay? Let's make it the big controversy in football where you've got a seven and two team and someone who we know to be great is saying, I want to be great from within the greatness. I'm always great. A.J. Brown is the number one receiver. We all know it. The only thing that's ever stopped A.J. Brown since we've learned his name is the Eagles offense. We know that that's a

human being that can't be covered by just about anybody. And so A.J. Brown is in the middle of this saying, I know how to be great. I know how to be great within this greatness. We have won. Look, this string of winning Philadelphia's done doesn't happen very often in football, where you win 23 of 25. Like, these things break apart. A.J. Brown is in the middle.

We're sitting here talking about how does Russell Westbrook end up, how does LeBron James end up fitting in with a group of people when you've been the great thing the entire time. A.J. Brown is a mess around a team that should not have any messes given the level of success that they have. But what happens when you getting yours conflicts

with the team getting it's? Like what does happen there? What do you do with A.J. Brown if you're the Philadelphia Eagles and you have an unhappy superstar, unhappy clearly, even though you've won 23 of 25. 23

What do you do with that? How do you lead that? If you're Nick Siriani, how do you keep eating it in these press conferences where your star receiver in videos on social media is being like, this isn't for me? This isn't. I'm clearly not happy. So it'll be a stupid question. I'm just going to ask it anyway.

Why can't they just throw the ball of AJ Brown more? He's really good. Like, why can't they just throw it to him more? Three targets last week. Yeah. 13 yards, right? Sometimes it's not the most obvious thing. You know, hand the ball to Marshawn.

Who knows? Get the press conference thing. All right. All right. Look. Coming up on two minutes here. Coming up on two minutes. I know that already.

I just said that. You're aging and I asked for your press conference materials. All you've been doing all show is chewing. Does your jaw hurt? It actually does a lot. All you've been doing for three hours now is chewing. Chewing in the meeting before the show. All right.

Let's do the press conference. Let's review the last hour. Go ahead. He looks haggard. You're in the shot. Sorry about that. PR guy. Come up here.

Well, let me, uh, a couple, a couple things here. Fall start on the first Dentech. We've got to clean that up. We'll hit that heavy in practice. We've got to learn to lay out, too. Miscommunication. But we touched on all the sports. A lot of different looks.

I thought Chris Cody bounced back, really responded to the adversity. I loved to see that. Building a good locker room culture over here. Now we'll open it up to questions. Do you think you're actively keeping Amin from being distracted? He was a little rattled during the Amin Diddy thing. I tried to do what is called a callback. Why was there a whistle in the press conference from our bounceback player of the show?

our comeback player of the show Chris Cody Leader of the mind The mind is a press conference I've never heard somebody blow a coach's whistle in a press conference. Have you? Where's the question here? You're distracting Amin. Do you not notice it? Yeah, I mean, I could have,

I wanted to see what kind of response he had for Amin did he. And we saw what Amin was made of. He had a great conversation about Kaminga. I thought Zazel made really good points. Got to finish a little stronger, no doubt. But to be able to counteract what Amin was thrown and Adam, real good job.

Coach, you know about that, did he? That's it. No more questions. We're done on that, by the way. Coach, thank you. Appreciate that. That's my time. You did Peter out.

You realized that, right? You stumbled toward the dis- I did. I'm going to lose a little sleep over that tonight. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be lying in bed, you know, feeling good about the show for the most part, and that's going to keep me up.

Can we see how Mike is age just trying to be in this cauldron for three hours of running both video and audio at the same time? Run the graphic. This is staggering here. That's how he looked at the start, and then that was our two, and that's now. Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Quervo.

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